Alfonso Gesualdo

Alfonso Gesualdo
Alfonso Gesualdo
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Church	Catholic Church
See	Ostia (e Velletri)
In office	20 March 1591 – 14 February 1603
Predecessor	Giovanni Antonio Serbelloni
Successor	Tolomeo Gallio
Other posts	Archbishop of Naples (1596-1603); Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites (1588-1603)
Previous posts	Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina (1589-1591); Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati (1587-1589); Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (1583-1587); Cardinal-Priest of San Clemente (1580-1583); Cardinal-Priest of San Pietro in Vincoli (1579-1580); Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Anastasia (1578-1579); Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca (1572-1578); Archbishop of Conza (1564-1572); Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia (1563-1572); Administrator of Conza (1561-1564); Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Cecilia (1561-1563)
Orders
Ordination	20 December 1561
Consecration	23 April 1564; by Francesco Pisani
Created cardinal	26 February 1561
Personal details
Born	Alfonso Gesualdo di Conza; 20 October 1540; Calitri, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Empire
Died	14 February 1603 (aged 62); Naples, Kingdom of Naples, Spanish Empire

Alfonso Gesualdo di Conza (20 October 1540 – 14 February 1603) was an Italian Cardinal starting in 1561. He was from Calitri, not far from Naples. His attendance at the papal conclave of 1565-1566 at the age of only 25 makes him one of the youngest Cardinals ever to participate in a papal election.^[1]

He was Archbishop of Conza in 1564 (consecrated 23 April 1564 by Francesco Pisani), Bishop of Albano in 1583, Bishop of Frascati in 1587, Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina in 1589, Bishop of Ostia in 1591, and Archbishop of Naples in 1596.

He was a patron of Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome, the mother church of the Theatine Order.^[2] The composer Carlo Gesualdo was his nephew.

Episcopal succession

Episcopal succession of Alfonso Gesualdo

While bishop, he was the principal consecrator of:^[3]

Salvatore Caracciolo, Archbishop of Conza (1572);
Marcantonio Pescara, Archbishop of Conza (1574);
Silvio de Sainte-Croix, Archbishop of Arles (1574);
Ippolito Aldobrandini (seniore), Pope of Rome (1592);
Filippo Spinelli, Titular Bishop of Colossae and Coadjutor Bishop of Policastro (1592);
Marco Magnacervo, Bishop of Lucera (1593);
Vincenzo Giustiniani, Bishop of Gravina di Puglia (1593);
Basilio Pignatelli, Bishop of L'Aquila (1593);
Annibale D'Afflitto, Archbishop of Reggio Calabria (1593);
Cesare Del Pezzo, Bishop of Valva e Sulmona (1593);
Benedetto Mandina, Bishop of Caserta (1594); and
Juan de Castro, Archbishop of Taranto (1600).

Notes

^ Miranda, Salvator. 1998. "Consistory of February 26, 1561 (II)"
^ Marcia B. Hall, Rome (2005), p. 303.
^ "Alfonso Cardinal Gesualdo di Conza (Gonza)" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved January 4, 2017

External links

Biography
Catholic Hierarchy page ^{[self-published]}
(in Italian) Biography
(in Italian) Biography

[miranda-1] Miranda, Salvator. 1998. "Consistory of February 26, 1561 (II)"

[2] Marcia B. Hall, Rome (2005), p. 303.

[CathHierAlfGes-3] "Alfonso Cardinal Gesualdo di Conza (Gonza)" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved January 4, 2017

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